We Are Human, And Nothing

When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.

The Survival Of Artistic Modes In Which We Recognize Ourselves, Identify Ourselves And Place Ourselves Will Survive As Long As Humanity Survives.

We Worked On Solving The Problem Of Voice Communications In A Noisy Military Environment. We Established Military Codes That Are Highly Audible And Invented Selection Tests For Personnel Who Had A Superior Ability To Recognize Sound In A Noisy Background.

At First, Students Tend To Freeze At The First Effort. The Breakthrough Comes When They Realize That They Can Make It Better - Can Identify What Their Purposes Were And Realize Better Ways To Achieve Those Purposes.

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury.